Healthy Baked Pumpkin Oatmeal topped with bananas tossed in a mixture of brownish sugar and vanilla bean! A great breakfast!

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about this blog page and what it represents if you ask me. I’ve come to the final outcome that it’s so much more than just posting recipes; this blog is a location for motivation and stories. A minimum of that’s what I’ve often tried to create it; however, latelyRead more

Given that it’s January, I realize that the majority of us are now on some fitness or wellness mission. I must say i haven’t made any resolutions, apart from to never let myself lose out on an experience that I discover interesting or challenging. However, I do believe that it’s finally time for me to get back into the golf swing of issues health-wise. Today I finally made it to yoga exercise after being sick for days gone by week; it experienced wonderful to just be generally there. I’m also making an effort to eliminate all the rubbish I ate last month – ugh, like plenty of using the cookies already! Yep, I simply said that.

Even when I’m eating healthier, I simply can’t find a reason why I would give up eating Mexican food. Why torture myself? We all know how that would end up – me using a plateful of nachos, a huge margarita, and a lot of guilt. Who provides up the things they love the most? NotRead more

AFTER I was little my Dad utilized to throw the best backyard BBQs. From special corn around the cob with honey butter and sodium to his well-known picnic salads, Father was the person who knew how to make you smile having a Dixie paper dish full of your favorite colorful summer food. I remember sitting down on checkered picnic blankets with my cousins once we held juicy watermelon wedges and patiently waited for the rest of our food.

As I acquired older I started to crave Dad’s salads; my favorites becoming his tuna noodle salad with refreshing lovely peas and his tangy sugary dilly cucumber salad. The tuna noodle salad was made with baby round noodles and frequently eaten right from the dish using a spoon. The cucumber salad was made out ofRead more

I hope your weekend was as wonderful as ever. I spent Saturday morning hours rowing 21,000+ meters (a fifty percent marathon) at Iron & Oar , a local Chicago workout studio room. Honestly I had formed only rowed probably once before signing up for the fifty percent marathon. Not sure what I was thinking, but I’m happy that I focused on it. Not merely was the competition actually fun, but my legs hurt in the simplest way. That sounds odd, but if you value a good hard workout guess what happens I mean. Greatest yet, we got 3rd place and didn’t even train! WHOOP!

Following the race, I enjoyed a huge cheat meal with Tony, accompanied by two of these chocolate peanut butter truffles that were waiting patiently for me personally within the freezer. I’m obsessed with the crispy, crunchy consistency and exactly how they resemble the flavor of peanut butter glass. Traditional peanut butter truffles usually demand powderedRead more

Bacon Wrapped Garlic Chicken Thighs

This dinner can easily become a one and accomplished dinner, but if you’re looking to augment it into something more, here are a number of additions for the menu. No matter what family we have all grown up in, there is something that has brought us all collectively right here and that could be aRead more

Green things! Finally, right?

Going back month, I ate a significant amount of Mexican food, drank way too many bottles of wine, and consumed wayyyy an excessive amount of sugar. Talk about an overload. What I must say i need in my life (and maybe yours, too) is just a little balance. The glad tidings are that work finallyRead more

Oh hi Monday, you’re here again. Do you have your cup of joe? Probably paired with a big plate of steaming warm oatmeal with blueberries for breakfast time? Me too.

I got back again from Nantucket yesterday evening and all I wanted to do was make a few healthy meals for the week. Individually I’ve found that the trick to maintaining a successful weight loss is usually to be ready when it comes to food; always easier said than done though, right? Right. I’m reallyRead more

Lemon Garlic clove Tilapia

I just wished to tell you all that I’m inside a Starbucks writing this post. I’m hungrier than a lion and the ones little salted caramel cake pops are looking at me. Seriously, whoever invented those is a genius because I wish to destroy around three of them… with my mouth. Sorry if that wasRead more

Lately I am pretty much in love with dipping cookies in chocolate. Or maybe just chocolate generally.

Did you guys see this recipe over on Cup of Jo last week? I was so excited to contribute to her chocolate series because I understood exactly what I would bake up. After all what could possibly be better than extremely gentle and chewy peanut butter cookies dunked in chocolate and topped with salty pretzelsRead more

Whole Wheat Chocolates Cinnamon Rolls with Pistachios + Orange Icing (vegan!)

Any programs for Valentine’s Day? I know mine is likely to be totally KILLER because I’m going to be in the Mariah Carey concert in Vegas. Talk about a true wish come true because of this girl. Significantly, I begged Tony for six months to obtain me those seat tickets and finally got them forRead more